No other land, The Oscar -winning documentary on activists in the West Bank has obtained a pair of nominations for the prestigious Brierson British Documentary Awards, the BBC dominating the long list differently.
No other landwhich was broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom but who had trouble with American distribution, will face Black Box Diaries, Netflix Ibelin’s remarkable life And Nat Geo’s Sugar cane In the best unique documentary – International category, while he also received a sign of the best documentary in cinema
No other land Followed a journalist and residents of a Palestinian community in an occupied West Bank, who had resisted a forced displacement after an Israeli “shooting zone” was declared on their land. The very emotional documentary has won glowing criticism, but its success did not facilitate the life of a part of his creative team. In March, Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co -directors, was allegedly attacked by a crowd of Israeli settlers near his village of West Bank, then arrested by soldiers.
No other land is one of the four documents to have been nominated twice this year in the grievors and joins another doc on Palestine, the BBC Life and death in Gaza, On the long list of prizes taking place on November 18 in London.
The grievors have had a difficult time to sail in the conflict since October 7. Last year, AIF Kapadia was deleted as the boss of the Grierson Trust after a reaction on the director sharing what he called “anti -Semitic” publications. This decision led to a counter-back and a boycott of higher Muslim personalities who estimated that Kapadia had been unjustly treated. The previous year, an anonymous person was forbidden to attend the events of Grierson for a decade following an anti -Semitic incident.
The BBC dominates the nominations this year with 19, well in advance on Channel 4 in second with eight, while the banners are lagging behind. Netflix names are for Ibelin’s remarkable life,, Apollo 13: Survival And Marcholin: Kulu’s trip.
Elsewhere, the Grierson Trust is this year famous 35 women directors landing names, almost at the level of men out of 42. A lack of female representation in the documentary staging has been in the spotlight for years and a campaign group, We Are Doc Women, was launched this decade earlier. Many networks and Indies have since signed a commitment by committing to 50% of women’s directors in their production.
The president of Grierson Trust, Lorraine Heggessey, said that she was “particularly happy to see the growing number of women recognized directors, given the duration of the challenge for our industry”.
“The increase in documentaries led by women reflects the efforts of commissioners, production companies and others who work to repair balance and support female creative talents,” she added. “These appointments also highlight the strength and attraction of observation documentaries, at a time when many members of the industry have questioned their role and their relevance in an evolving television landscape.”
